Baby-carriage



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0. IVLHUBBARD. Baby Carriage.

No. 233,761. Patented Oct. 26,1880.

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BABY-CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,761, dated October 26, 1880.

Application filed April 29, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES ll/IANTLE HUB- BAR-1), of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a new Improvement in Baby-Carriages; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a baby-carriage embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view, showing amoditication.

My invention relates to an improved means for connecting the body of a baby-carriage to the running-gear; and it consists in supporting the rear end by one or more coil-sprin gs and hinging the front portion of the body to a pair of upturned supports rising from the front axle, as hereinafterjully described.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the baby-carriage, and B B the axles, which are connected by a continuation of the ends of the push-bar forming reaches 0. Resting upon the front ends of these reaclrbars, and fastened to the same, or to the axle, or to both, are a pair of curved supports, D D, bent forwardly, upwardly, and then back, to which supports the front portion of the body is hinged by means of plates to articulating with the supports D. For supporting the rear end of the body a coil-spring, E, is fixed upon a. suitable seat on the axle and is connected to (No model.)

the body portion above. Asa modification of this feature I may employa bracket, 1), (see Fig. 5 2,) which is fastened tothe rear axle, and then between the same and the rear bottom end of the carriage-bod y I place coil-sprin gs c c, which support the body with an elastic bearing, using in such case two coil-springs instead of one.

I am aware that a eoil spring has been placed beneath the rear end of a baby-carriage, and I do not claim this, broadly. The spiral form of spring is, however, specially liable to sway laterally, and unless this tendency is corrected by some means it involves the danger of throwing the child fromthe carriage. This tendency to sway laterally I overcome in a simple manner by hinging the front part of the carriage to two independent upwa-rdly- 5o.

curved supports, D D, the double connection of which prevents the lateral swaying, and this, too, without the use of a guide-pin passing through the rear axle, as heretofore employed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- The combination, with the carriage-body and run ning-gear, of two upwardly and rearwardlycurved supports, D D, hinged to the front of the carriage-body, and one or more coil-springs arranged between the running-gear and carriage-body in the rear, as described.

CHARLES MANTLE HUBBARD.

WVitnesses G. P. HILDEBRAND, G. D. MARTIN. 

